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There is a famous example of probability which (in one of its many
forms) states that six chimpanzees randomly typing at six typewriters
would eventually reproduce all of the books in the British museum. In
this story, six chimps begin doing exactly that -- without producing
any errors or gibberish. The mathematician feels obligated to be a
vigilante and defend the laws of probability (which he says take
everything into account...including his own actions) by killing the
apes before they get too far. Reprinted in Fantasia Mathematica.
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Exciting News: The 1,600th entry was recently added to this database of mathematical fiction! Also, for those of you interested in non-fictional math books
let me (shamelessly) plug the recent release of the second edition of my soliton theory textbook.
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College of Charleston)